Trump once promised that his trusted tactic of unpredictability, the cornerstone of his much-touted negotiation strategy, would be used to target foreign governments like China to carve out better deals for the American people. Now, Trump is using that same tactic against the American people in order to facilitate his expansion of U.S. involvement in the Syrian conflict.

A protest against US military action in Syria during a rally in New York on Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP/Andres Kudacki)cki)

ANALYSIS – At the end of March, the Trump administration won the approval of anti-war activists and others opposed to U.S.-led regime change efforts abroad when Secretary of State Rex Tillersontold reporters gathered in Istanbul that the “longer term of [Syrian] President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people.” Tillerson’s announcement, at the time, was considered a major departure from the policy of Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, who had made removing Assad from power one of its key motivations for the country’s involvement in the Syrian conflict.

For that reason, the Trump administration’s dramatic reversal a week later – which saw regime change in Syriabecome a top priority once again and culminated in Trump’s bombing of a Syrian airbase – came as a shock to many American and international spectators.

While Trump asserted that his policy in Syria hadn’t changed, Secretary of State Tillerson, in Moscow this week,stated the opposite on the very same day. Tillerson warned Russia that it must choose between its long-standing alliance with Assad or to stand with the U.S. and “like-minded” nations who support regime change, adding that “it is clear to all of us that the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end.”

Then, a day later,, the White House press secretarySean Spicer said that the commonly used “barrel bomb” could be grounds for another U.S. strike against the Syrian government – despite the fact thatU.S. ally Saudi Arabia has made extensive use of barrel bombs in Yemen without so much as a peep from the Trump or Obama administrations. Either Trump has dramatically failed in keeping his top officials update on the administration’s policies or something else is afoot.

The Tactic Of Unpredictability

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night, allegedly in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack. (AP/Alex Brandon)

This dichotomy over the administration’s Syria policy begs the question: Why would the Trump administration and the President himself waffle back and forth in their rhetoric in apparent disconnect from one another – especially at a time when all indications point to the clear advancement of U.S. military intervention in Syria? Look no further than Trump’s 2015 book “Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America”where he states: “The element of surprise wins battles. So I don’t tell the other side what I’m doing, I don’t warn them, and I don’t let them fit me comfortably into a predictable pattern.”

Trump’s tactic of unpredictability is one of his most touted, an apparent cornerstone of his negotiation strategy with foreign governments, particularly China. AsMintPress previously reported, Trump advisor and renowned China expert Michael Pillsbury asserted in January that Trump’s inconsistency with key issues for the Chinese government – from the one-China policy to tensions in the South China Sea – was intentional, intended to keep their leadership off balance in order to give Trump the advantage in order to obtain“once unthinkable” concessions from the Chinese. Recent events suggest that this has been fairly effective, with China bowing to U.S. pressure regarding rising tensions with North Korea.

Now, a few months later, Trump is again using his same tried and true tactic of intentional unpredictability and obfuscation of his true motives against the American people. While Trump himself is claiming that his policy on Syria hasn’t changed – despite saying the opposite in the days prior to the strike – members of his administration are simultaneously saying the opposite.

Trump’s campaign stance on Syria:

While Presidents and presidential candidates in the past have often “flip-flopped,” Trump’s policy change in Syria is not done with the intention of garnering votes or increasing his popularity. Unlike notable “flip-flops” likeHillary Clinton’s reversal on the Trans-Pacific partnership during the 2016 campaign, Trump’s back-and-forth on Syria is changing by the hour – marking it as an intentional move to keep the American public unsure and on edge. With such doubt over whether or not Trump will further escalate U.S. involvement in Syria, opposition to waging a war without congressional approval to create another disastrous vacuum of power in the Middle East is significantly more difficult to coalesce and, thus, less likely to amount any meaningful challenge.

Some, particularly Trump’s most fervent supporters, will be inclined to take the President at his word and continue to believe that he will abide by what he says publicly. However, the fact that Trump has left nearly all of campaign promises behind to rot – including his promise to avoid intervention in Syria – should caution everyone to heed Trump’s actions, not his words.

Indeed, in less than 24 hours this past week, Trumpreversed on no less than five core campaign promises including the role of NATO and the future of the Federal Reserve among others. Combined with his earlier abandonment of Obamacare repeal, his tax plan, and NAFTA renegotiation, Trump’s action clearly demonstrate that he is as mainstream a politician as any of his predecessors who will continue to follow the beck and call of the “deep state” over the people who elected him.

With many former Trump supporters now starting to realize that they have been duped, Trump is now using his unpredictability psy-op tactic – which he once promised to use to benefit the American people – against them in order to create confusion and weaken dissent regarding Trump’s transformation from “anti-establishment” politician to a carbon copy of Hillary Clinton.

The reason that “tapatio” supports Syria and Iran and lies about their vile governments is because he wants to KILL ALL JEWS. As such, he sees the existence of the nation of Israel as an impediment to that goal and hopes that Iran and Syria will help him to destroy Israel so he can help enact Der Final Solution.

The fake claims that the chemical weapons used by Assad were faked ignores the fact that Assad ADMITTED he had chemical weapons and the equipment to produce them in the FIRST place. Assad “agreed” to get rid of them, but apparently has not done so.

Syria Chemical Weapons

tapatio’s” entire list is an excellent example of his usual “deny, divert and deceive” tactics.

1. The fact that rebel groups used THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS THAT ASSAD MANUFACTURED is only proof of their existence. The fact they used them does not mean that Assad did not.

“Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons condemns reported use of chemical weapons in Syria” Thursday, April 6, 2017 by HPN News Desk

2. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has most DEFINITELY written that Assad has used chemical weapons on his own people AT LEAST EIGHT – NOW NINE – TIMES! “tapatio’s” efforts to create Fake News are examples of how he shills for Assad.

THE CREDIBILITY OF JAMES WHERRY (whose comments appear below) A SELF-STYLED “CHRISTIAN” ZIONIST (How can any human claim to follow Christ and promote the crimes of Zionism?) TROLL IN THE EMPLOY OF ISRAEL CAN BE JUDGED FROM WHAT HE IS…………………………

JAMES WHERRY WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO USE HIS NAME AND A PHOTO THAT COULD BE TRACED. TURNS OUT THAT HE IS……………..

1 A SELF-STYLED “CHRISTIAN” ZIONIST. THESE, AH, PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT, ONCE ALL OF THE JEWS ARE GATHERED IN PALESTINE, SOMETHING CALLED “ARMAGEDDON” WILL HAPPEN AND ALL OF THE “CHRISTIAN” ZIONISTS WILL BE WHISKED UP TO HEAVEN WITH THEIR BODIES INTACT IN THE HOLY 0RGASM THEY CALL THE “RAPTURE”. NOBODY HAS EVER EXPLAINED TO THE OTHER 99% OF CHRISTIANITY HOW THESE FUNDAMENTALISTS WHACK-A-MOLES CAN BELIEVE THAT JESUS OR HIS DAD WOULD EVER SUPPORT SUCH FANTASIES OR THE CRIMES SUPPORTED BY PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS.

2) A MAJOR IN THE US ARMY FROM “CIVIL AFFAIRS”. BABY-BOOMERS MIGHT RECALL THAT “CIVIL AFFAIRS” WAS PROMINENT IN THE “PHOENIX PROGRAM” IN VIETNAM……..THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO TOLD THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE, “LOVE AMERICA OR WE’LL NAPALM YOUR VILLAGE.” WHERRY HAS ALSO BRAGGED ABOUT HELPING TO TRAIN THE STATE TERRORISTS OF UGANDA.

3) A “GAY” PREDATOR THAT BOUGHT A BOY FROM THE PHILIPPINE SLUMS TO USE AS HIS SXX TOY. PRESUMABLY, THIS BOY HAS PAPERS CLAIMING THAT HE IS OF AGE. BUT, HE COULD PASS FOR A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL KID AND YOU CAN HAVE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES FOR $100..https://www.facebook.com/james.wherry.39

Trumps Al Qaeda Fighters just killed 68 Children going to school in Syria.

Trump should be ashamed.

Al Nusra Front Trump is just as much an Al Qaeda Lover as Hillary Clinton.

James Wherry

Nathan Jihad, you’ve already committed yourself to shill for a brutal dictator like Assad, as he murders countless Sun’ni Muslims. You Shi’ites are as much bigots as the Sun’ni jihadists. But then, that’s one of the great problems with Islam: your religion prevents you from seeing others as human beings or loving them or caring for them. What you do to Christians and Jews and Atheists and Hindus pales by ccomparison to what you do to one another.

The USA is not supporting al-Quaeda. Our bombing campaigns with great success over al-Quaeda show that is true. As to your IRANIAN and RUSSIAN allies who ARE supporting al-Quaeda, the same is not true.

tapatio

Wherry claims to be a “Christian” Zionist – those critters who support Zionism so they can have their “Armageddon” and their Holy 0rgasm, that they call “The Rapture”.

Somehow, I can’t see Jesus supporting the evil that these creatures so adore.

Prior to the attacks by US supported terrorist groups, Syria was pretty much the most secular, peaceful and pleasant nations in the Middle East. I attended both Presbyterian and Greek Orthodox church services there, saw a synagogue and met people who were openly gay (though not flamers).

It was pretty obvious, from the condition of buildings, homes, cars, clothing and people – that Syria was a nice place to live. People smiled

I’ll bet that if Foreign Minister Lavrov or Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (Syria) declared that they were taking measures to destroy the Corporate States of America, the neo-Naz!s of Washington would be upset.

THE CORPORATE STATES OF AMEREIKA HAS BECOME AN OUTLAW STATE, MURDERING MILLIONS OF INNOCENT HUMANS FOR THE PROFIT OF BANKS AND CORPORATIONS.

AMERICANS HAVE TO BE EITHER ATHEISTS OR BRAIN-DEAD TO AVOID UNDERSTANDING THE KARMA THAT’S WAITING FOR EVERY AMERICAN THAT PARTICIPATES IN THIS HORROR OR SITS IDLY AND LETS IT HAPPEN.

The recent devastating car bombing in Mogadishu has been blamed by Somali officials on the terrorist group al-Shabab. But the violence (and famine) that have beset Somalia have deeper roots — decades of imperialism and intervention, and use of Somalia as a staging grounds for the “war on terror.”

Buried among statistics on gun profits and lobbying efforts is the terrifying reality of just how unique America’s gun obsession and associated violence are. And the equally terrifying plan by the NRA to “normalize” gun possession in nearly every nook and cranny of American life.

U.S. campaigns for regime change characteristically focus on the “madness” of the “dictators” to be toppled. In the case of North Korea, the narrative is spiced by the country’s developing nuclear capabilities — which North Korea views as its main line of defense against . . . regime change.

Aung Su Kyi, the leader of Myanmar, has been accused of “legitimizing genocide” against the country’s Rohingya Muslims, despite being a Nobel Prize laureate. Her country’s military has massacred thousands of Rohingya, leading some to call for Kyi’s Nobel Prize to be revoked.